Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome /

Commerce and Social Standing in Ancient Rome / / John H. D'Arms.

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John D'Arms explores here a question of central importance for the social economic history of the Roman world: which sectors of society were actively engaged in trade? In the late Roman Republic and early Empire senators were prohibited by law from direct participation in seaborne commerce; tra...

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D'Arms, John H.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1981
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (201 p.) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Traders in Roman Society: Two Approaches
  • 2. Attitudes, Conduct, and Commercial Organization in the Late Republic
  • 3. Senators and Commerce
  • 4. Luxury, Productivity, and Decline: Villa Society on the Bay of Naples
  • 5. The "Typicality" of Trimalchi
  • 6. The Freedmen of Puteoli and Ostia in Imperial Economy and Society
  • 7. Attitudes, Conduct, and Commercial Organization in the Early Empire
  • Appendix. Augustales of Puteoli and Ostia
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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